Why Netflix's Young Wallander Changed The Time Setting
Young Wallander is based on Henning Mankell’s character from his novels, Kurt Wallander, but the series changed the time setting of the original story – here’s why. Crime series continue to be very popular, fiction or not, and Netflix has a wide selection of that genre. Its latest addition is the series Young Wallander, a new version of the Swedish detective who reached worldwide recognition thanks to the BBC’s Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh as a mature Kurt Wallander.
Young Wallander follows the young years of the title character, who’s working on his first case. After witnessing a horrible murder in his neighborhood, Wallander is promoted from policeman to detective and starts working on the case, even though he’s constantly trapped in an inner battle between what feels right and what must be done according to the law. While, Netflix's Young Wallander is based on the character created by Swedish author Henning Mankell, it made some changes to the source material and the Kenneth Branagh series, most notably its time setting.
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It's a fairly common occurrence nowadays for reboot or spinoff series to take beloved, well-known characters and stories with proven track records and place them in a fresh context for contemporary audiences. Young Wallander is a perfect example of this phenomenon, as it certainly plays on nostalgia for the slightly older Wallander series by making connections to the Kenneth Branagh show. At the same time, however, Young Wallander allows itself to be its own story with its own version of the titular detective, and this is why some notable changes are made even if they're inconsistent with the original show. The
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